Hey President!
That conference this weekend was an awesome conference and a cool birthday present to receive!
As for this week, it's been pretty good. For study, I've been reading from the Liahona again, as well as from Alma. I seem to have hit another of those moods where I have a hard time staying interested in the ancient scripture lexicon. I really like reading the Liahona articles just because they're so real and at us it seems. I know the Book of Mormon is written for us too, but the modern language helps to keep that in mind.
In the new area, we found two new investigators already, or rather they found us. We were walking down the street to visit a member, and this lady stopped us and asked if we could meet soon. When we did meet them, she said that she was brining a friend, and we became slightly worried that they were 전도사s and were just wanting to bash with us, but they weren't! They both just have genuine interest in the church and we haven't even told them about the English program! So cool!
I think that also is the biggest miracle I've seen this week. It feels just like one of those stories that you hear about in a conference talk. Granted there is a lot more ground to cover before it can reach that level, but hey, who's to say that it can't get there!?
Thanks again for giving us the opportunity to hear from Elder Yamashida and Bishop Davies this weekend! It was awesome!
-Elder Clawson
Hey everybody!
For the record I did not cry on my birthday, whoever would have thought that would have happened must just be silly! This week has been pretty great, and I have a lot to tell you, but oh so little time. We have an appointment in not too long, and we showed up at our email place lot later than we thought we would, so I will probably have a whole lot of spelling errors, and forget even more things that I had intended to include in this email, so I apologize in advance.
We had a conference this week like I said in my email to president if you actually read those haha. It was super awesome, we had Bishop Davies from the presiding Bishopric there, and An area seventy named Elder Yamashida, as well as their wives. They were so cool! It was super fun to hear from them and the messages that they shared were way awesome too. I suppose it was a pretty awesome birthday present!
In regards to my birthday, I suppose that the conference counts as something special, and we also went to this fireside afterwards, where I met my companion's parents. While he's been on his mission they have since moved to Korea and come to see him about every four months. I don't know how he does it, but he somehow does haha. It's funny because my companion is about six foot, and his dad is legitimately a whole foot shorter than him. Funniest looking thing you have ever seen, had you seen it haha. His Mom ispretty short too, like 5'5 so I have no idea where his height comes from. It's really strange haha.
We also are now in our new area which has been pretty fun. Like I said in the email to president, we have two investigators who found us. They seem super cool and we're meeting at least one of them tonight. We still don't have the second one's name or number since she's actually just a friend of the first, but they are both super awesome. It's really strange because since we've been transferred, we have more investigators than we had last transfer, and both of them are female, yet we got replaced by females, and they still don't have investigators haha. Just a little funny coincidence.
The weather is finally supposed to be warming up, so it may not be long before I don't have to wear my coat anymore. Also what the heck? It's almost my second General Conference as a missionary as well. This is starting to get really weird and I'm just getting all confused with how long I've been out here.
One really cool experience I had this week was yesterday at church. Even though it was fast sunday, we still kinda introduced ourselves(usually they just do that on normal sundays so it seemed weird to me) Anyways, I introduced myself, and said all the typical things. When the meeting was over, this sister comes up to me and asked how long I've been in Korea. I said four months and she immediately called me a liar. She was saying that my Korean was way too good to only be here for four months. Bit of self esteem there. Also, I've noticed that I understand wayyyyyy more than I think I do. It's kinda confusing in some ways. For a while I had kinda been thinking about it, and I had compared my understanding to listening to somebody talk but they're talking quietly to the point where you can barely here them. That same day my companion pointed out to me that it's not that I don't understand the people, it's that they legitimately do just mumble, and that I have just built up somewhat selective hearing from thinking that I couldn't understand people. This was a really happy day in my life! For all you spanish speakering missionaries, I'm just gonna straight up say that you don't understand the nightmare of confusion of a language that Korean is.
For Korean time, I will share with you, one of the 106 commonly used ways that people refer to someone dying. They legitimately use all of these by the way.
손가락 널었어요 (son-ka-rak neo-reos-so-yo)
I'm not sure if I spelled this right, but it literally means to put your spoon down. They legitimately use all 106 ways to say someone died. That is how Korean is so awful, yet so fun =D!!! This is not the only phrase that is this way just so you know hahaha
I'm trying to think of something awesome and edifying to say, but nothing really comes to mind. All I can think of to say is that if troubles come your way, don't worry about it more than is necessary. My advice to give would be worry less and your life is easier. Especially as a missionary, but that doesn't mean become a bad missionary by any means or don't work. Just don't worry. Whole lot easier that way hahaha, things will work themselves out!
Also, costco is really similar in Korea haha
I love you all! You're the best!!!
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